Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Ryan Phillippe's character Priest says,"If a God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able - Then He is not omnipotent. If He is able, but not willing - Then He must be Malevolent. If He is neither able nor willing, then why call Him a God? Why else do bad things happen to good people."After losing my daughter to cancer, these words resonated loudly for me. As a lifelong Agnostic, I've often struggled with these questions, but they were so neatly summed up in this film that it stuck with me as one of my favorite quotes.digitalRITUAL

Pretty much agree entirely with Neil Welch's review on here. Though personally I'd give it about a 4, because I did derive some enjoyment from Franklyn.But they needed to sit down and re-edit the plot lines once they had the basics down. Essentially they started booking the cast, cgi and catering before they had the whiteboard flow-charting fully scribbled out.At about the half-way mark I commented to my partner, in words approximated thus - "I have a dreadful feeling that this is one of those films where they think they can get away with three {I hadn't noticed it was four yet - ed.} separate completely un-related threads and call it a film." Ie. the kind of thing that a 22 year old film student thinks is "terribly, frightfully original" whereas in fact it's been tried time and again and it *never* works, the threads must be related in some way. And the relationship needs to be a good one, an artistically whole one (for an example of completely failing to do this, take Jane-I-Swear-Its-Art-Campion's utterly disastrous 'Holy Smoke').Eventually my fears were allayed but... it still didn't quite work. Along with Neil I have to say that Milo really didn't need to be there. The only reason the adult Sally looked like Emelia was his chance meeting in the park when she was stalking him for her video project. Come on, thats a very tenuous link. And the cleaners got to be mysterious know-it-all figures without any real justification: it was hinted that they shared the same space as Sally, but hints weren't enough by this stage of the film, it should have been coming together not getting vaguer.And one more thing. Can we please stop praising Eva Green. If you want to get into her pants, contact her agent. She only has one act, and it's bloody annoying. It suited her role in Penny Dreadful, it suits her role here as the direly, *direly* narcissistic Emelia. But either way, I just wanted somebody to step in, yell "you're a parasitic w*nker!" and punch her in the face. Her tutor *almost* gave me satisfaction, but even he ended up one of the film's insipid roadkill elements.Can't bring myself to hate this film because there was so much I liked about it, but gaaaahhh, somebody needs a stern talking-to.

Several different plot strands that somehow magically (unrealistically) join up right at the end. Pulp fiction or magnolia this is not. This is not even a true science fiction movie. That was the sole reason i bought the film...Most of the film is slightly dull and hard to follow. The scenes in the 'alternative' London are just plain silly and badly scripted. Yet when we connect them with our London they do actually make a little more sense and take on a deeper meaning that previously thought. This eureka moment is one of the few moments in the film that actually impress. The other being the scene between Milo and his mum regarding his great realisation about Sally.The ending is nonsensical and just not a good enough pay off for what we have had to sit through. The only semi-interesting character and decently acted part was that played by Eva Green. Also helps that she looks pretty cool throughout.

My wife knows I like superhero movies and movies like the matrix and Donnie Darko. Put all those facts together, and seeing the cover of Franklyn in the store, and she had all the reasons to buy this movie.At first I thought, maybe this could be something. But on the other hand, if it would have been something, why is this movie not so known? The movie begins with David's fantasy, where he's the Preest. Now here's something bothering me. Ryan Phillippe's performance of Jonathan Preest was very similar to Jackie Earle Haley's performance of Rorschach. I can't say that Ryan P. is the copycat, because Franklyn is from 2008 and Watchmen is from 2009.So I follow the story further, with Eva Green and her disturbing relationship with her mother and her suicide attempts to make a projects. This was all new for me, but I stayed open minded. But even then I did not like this performance of Eva Green and I could not know why.So we walk to the third character Milo with his imaginary girlfriend from the past. Now this character is more simple and easier to follow, or is that deceiving? Did Eva Green just fail to put up the right performance for the job? And at the end all fits in; There was a great story to tell, the translation to film was just boring. Acting was boring. It could have had more drama. With a story with so many depths you have to have actors and actresses who can act with depths. With deeper emotions. And that was not there in this movie.Sometimes when you write a book, or make a movie, you must think if you are ready for it. And of course it's worth to risk the jump, but in this case it would have been better if the story would have waited a few more years to come to the movies. Nolan waited many years to bring out Inception, and he did a very, very good job.Now I have to disagree BBC5 live; this movie was not fantastic and wasn't even close to The Matrix and Donnie Darko. It could have been though.